True Freedom July Fourth is frequently a time of fun and frolic…backyard barbecues, camping trips, parades, hot dogs and yes fireworks.  I know for me it has been all those things and more.  This year my attention has been drawn to the frenzy that is appearing as...

One From The Heart One of my favorite spirit filled teachers is Michael Singer…known for his books The Untethered Soul and The Surrender Experiment.  He also releases recorded teachings a few times a year and they are my commuting listening.  Sometimes he gives...

The Heart Knows Some call it intuition – some call it sudden insight -Leroy Jethro Gibbs (handsome Mark Harmon) calls it his “gut”…whatever we call it, we have all experienced a sense of realizing or knowing something that did not come from analytical thought.  In the...

The Heart as a Holo-gram Ho-lo-gram-a three dimensional image created by directing two coherent light sources such as a lazer, a source beam and reference beam, through a two-dimensional image. Heart Ho-lo-gramming- a practice in which an individual sincerely...

You Gotta Have Heart June’s theme will be on the Heart- and by that I don’t mean the physical pump- but the Heart intelligence, the Fourth Chakra or heart energy center. For more than a decade I have been a coach in the HeartMath work -which does incorporate the...

Allow the Divine Feminine For a few years now, Deepak Chopra and Oprah Winfrey have offered the free 21 day meditation program on a variety of topics.  Most recently, Deepak entered a collaboration with Alicia Keyes on the same format – this topic is the Integration...

LIFT BY LIFTING Countless times I have tried to cheer myself up – to elevate my mood and “get over myself”…I have a ton of books, ideas, suggestions, and resources with which to do that – a vast collection I have assembled over the years.  I have the emergency 911...

Lift off by Letting Go Many philosophical and spiritual teachers tell us that the work of developing our fulfillment and unfoldment lies largely in letting go.  In fact, some say 90% or more of the task at hand is in releasing.  What is it we are letting go of?  Well...

If I be Lifted Up There have been some amazing cloud filled days in the past week – its not a picture we see in our dry climate – sunny, cloudless days.  But of late, clouds have been forming early in the day and floating about with a light Spring breeze.  May is...

The essence of Spring ......We have touched on a lot of the themes of Spring over these last few weeks – moving forward – rebirth – waking up – feeling the grace of emerging from both winter as a season and winter as a state of mind.  I don’t want to leave this topic...

The Miracles of Spring  “There are only two ways to live your life.           One is though nothing is a miracle                    The other is as though everything is a miracle.”  -Albert Einstein Miracles are Natural. Miracles are Normal. We can cut ourselves off...

Spring Always Remembers ......................................... Spring continues to unfold this week – in beautiful and inspiring ways.  In the lower elevations, plum blossoms are on the trees – and in our area more and more birds are appearing.  This week I heard...